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Validation of in vivo magnetic resonance imaging blood-brain barrier permeability measurements by comparison with gold standard histology.


ABSTRACT: We sought to validate the blood-brain barrier permeability measurements extracted from perfusion-weighted MRI through a relatively simple and frequently applied model, the Patlak model, by comparison with gold standard histology in a rat model of ischemic stroke.Eleven spontaneously hypertensive rats and 11 Wistar rats with unilateral 2-hour filament occlusion of the right middle cerebral artery underwent imaging during occlusion at 4 hours and 24 hours after reperfusion. Blood-brain barrier permeability was imaged by gradient echo imaging after the first pass of the contrast agent bolus and quantified by a Patlak analysis. Blood-brain barrier permeability was shown on histology by the extravasation of Evans blue on fluorescence microscopy sections matching location and orientation of MR images. Cresyl-violet staining was used to detect and characterize hemorrhage. Landmark-based elastic image registration allowed a region-by-region comparison of permeability imaging at 24 hours with Evans blue extravasation and hemorrhage as detected on histological slides obtained immediately after the 24-hour image set.Permeability values in the nonischemic tissue (marginal mean ± SE: 0.15 ± 0.019 mL/min 100 g) were significantly lower compared to all permeability values in regions of Evans blue extravasation or hemorrhage. Permeability values in regions of weak Evans blue extravasation (0.23 ± 0.016 mL/min 100 g) were significantly lower compared to permeability values of in regions of strong Evans blue extravasation (0.29 ± 0.020 mL/min 100 g) and macroscopic hemorrhage (0.35 ± 0.049 mL/min 100 g). Permeability values in regions of microscopic hemorrhage (0.26 ± 0.024 mL/min 100 g) only differed significantly from values in regions of nonischemic tissue (0.15 ± 0.019 mL/min 100 g).Areas of increased permeability measured in vivo by imaging coincide with blood-brain barrier disruption and hemorrhage observed on gold standard histology.

SUBMITTER: Hoffmann A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3921072 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Validation of in vivo magnetic resonance imaging blood-brain barrier permeability measurements by comparison with gold standard histology.

Hoffmann Angelika A   Hoffmann Angelika A   Bredno Jörg J   Wendland Michael F MF   Derugin Nikita N   Hom Jason J   Schuster Tibor T   Su Hua H   Ohara Peter T PT   Young William L WL   Wintermark Max M  

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<h4>Background and purpose</h4>We sought to validate the blood-brain barrier permeability measurements extracted from perfusion-weighted MRI through a relatively simple and frequently applied model, the Patlak model, by comparison with gold standard histology in a rat model of ischemic stroke.<h4>Methods</h4>Eleven spontaneously hypertensive rats and 11 Wistar rats with unilateral 2-hour filament occlusion of the right middle cerebral artery underwent imaging during occlusion at 4 hours and 24 h  ...[more]

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